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SDAFF 2025 : Project Y
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2025 Two friends tired of their precarious existence in the nighttime life of Gangnam, in South Korea, plan to gather a bunch of money and start a new business elsewhere, only to find themselves embroiled in fixed sports games with high gangster stakes, buried gold treasure, and an uncontrollable mother with her own agenda! This sort of neo-noir thriller has plenty of precedent, but director Hwan Lee keeps us happy with sharper protagonists, a...
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SDAFF Spring Showcase 2025 : Lucky Star
Reviewed by Alicia Glass After falling prey to a tax scam, reformed gambler Lucky goes through increasingly desperate actions to try and make ends meet for his struggling family. So when we meet Lucky (Terry Chen), he’s already or more accurately still in...
SDAFF Spring Showcase 2025 : Soldier of Love
Reviewed by Alicia Glass The story of rising Kazakh music star Beybut and his navigating the trappings, and failings, of fame. So apparently the now-familiar story trope of a musician who climbs to fame and ignores or casts aside everyone who helped him...
SDAFF 2024 Dead Talents Society
Reviewed by Alicia Glass So our Rookie (Gingle Wang) hasn’t been dead terribly long as other ghosts would describe it, and isn’t terribly familiar with the big business that the haunting and urban legend celebrity ghosts perpetuate. When the offerings at a ghosts...